The Big Playground (and our backyard)

as Emma Catherine calls it. For a year we have been working on our backyard. When we moved to Tennessee, we realized that level lots are hard to come by. We settled for a slightly sloping backyard with a basement which was something that Ryan really wanted. We thought it would not be too hard of a project to make our backyard a little more level...boy were we wrong. The wall was actually never finished until May of this year because we were waiting on another load of dirt to make the area level. Once we finally got the dirt, Ryan laid sod and then he put together the swing set that Emma Catherine got for her birthday in January. She calls it her "big playground" and I think she has played on it everyday since Ryan finished it.

Here is a picture of the backyard when we were looking at the house.

The wall with the dirt Ryan building the fence around the wall

The yard with the sodThe last 2 pictures are of the girls on the swingset